decide 993.dec.00 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

"Either let us go over to his system, if it is better than ours, or let those who desire change have their leader and adviser taken from them. That sect of his gave birth to the Tuberones and Favonii, names hateful even to the old republic. They make a show of freedom, to overturn the empire; should they destroy it, they will attack freedom itself. In vain have you banished Cassius, if you are going to allow rivals of the Bruti to multiply and flourish. Finally, write nothing yourself about Thrasea; leave the Senate to decide for us." Nero further stimulated the eager wrath of Cossutianus, and associated with him the pungent eloquence of Marcellus Eprius.

As for the impeachment of Barea Soranus, Ostorius Sabinus, a Roman knight, had already claimed it for himself. It arose out of his proconsulate of Asia, where he increased the prince's animosity by his uprightness and diligence, as well as by having bestowed pains on opening the port of Ephesus and passed over without punishment the violence of the citizens of Pergamos in their efforts to hinder Acratus, one of the emperor's freedmen, from carrying off statues and pictures. But the crime imputed to him was friendship with Plautus and intrigues to lure the province into thoughts of revolt. The time chosen for the fatal sentence was that at which Tiridates was on his way to receive the sovereignty of Armenia, so that crime at home might be partially veiled amid rumours on foreign affairs, or that Nero might display his imperial grandeur by the murder of illustrious men, as though it were a kingly exploit.

Corbulo 881.cor.001001 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

The people enthusiastically applauded him. After a fierce conflict among the barbarians, the king was victorious. Subsequently, in his good fortune, he fell into a despot's pride, was dethroned, was restored by the help of the Langobardi, and still, in prosperity or adversity, did mischief to the interests of the Cheruscan nation.

It was during the same period that the Chauci, free, as it happened, from dissension at home and emboldened by the death of Sanquinius, made, while Corbulo was on his way, an inroad into Lower Germany, under the leadership of Gannascus. This man was of the tribe of the Canninefates, had served long as our auxiliary, had then deserted, and, getting some light vessels, had made piratical descents specially on the coast of Gaul, inhabited, he knew, by a wealthy and unwarlike population. Corbulo meanwhile entered the province with careful preparation and soon winning a renown of which that campaign was the beginning, he brought his triremes up the channel of the Rhine and the rest of his vessels up the estuaries and canals to which they were adapted. Having sunk the enemy's flotilla, driven out Gannascus, and brought everything into good order, he restored the discipline of former days among legions which had forgotten the labours and toils of the soldier and delighted only in plunder. No one was to fall out of the line; no one was to fight without orders. At the outposts, on guard, in the duties of day and of night, they were always to be under arms. One soldier, it was said, had suffered death for working at the trenches without his sword, another for wearing nothing as he dug, but his poniard. These extreme and possibly false stories at least had their origin in the general's real severity. We may be sure that he was strict and implacable to serious offences, when such sternness in regard to trifles could be believed of him.

The fear thus inspired variously affected his own troops and the enemy. Our men gained fresh valour; the barbarians felt their pride broken. The Frisians, who had been hostile or disloyal since the revolt which had been begun by the defeat of Lucius Apronius, gave hostages and settled down on territories marked out by Corbulo, who, at the same time, gave them a senate, magistrates, and a constitution. That they might not throw off their obedience, he built a fort among them, while he sent envoys to invite the Greater Chauci to submission and to destroy Gannascus by stratagem. This stealthy attempt on the life of a deserter and a traitor was not unsuccessful, nor was it anything ignoble. Yet the Chauci were violently roused by the man's death, and Corbulo was now sowing the seeds of another revolt, thus getting a reputation which many liked, but of which many thought ill. "Why," men asked, "was he irritating the foe? His disasters will fall on the State. If he is successful, so famous a hero will be a danger to peace, and a formidable subject for a timid emperor." Claudius accordingly forbade fresh attacks on Germany, so emphatically as to order the garrisons to be withdrawn to the left bank of the Rhine.

Corbulo was actually preparing to encamp on hostile soil when the despatch reached him. Surprised, as he was, and many as were the thoughts which crowded on him, thoughts of peril from the emperor, of scorn from the barbarians, of ridicule from the allies, he said nothing but this, "Happy the Roman generals of old," and gave the signal for retreat. To keep his soldiers free from sloth, he dug a canal of twenty-three miles in length between the Rhine and the Meuse, as a means of avoiding the uncertain perils of the ocean. The emperor, though he had forbidden war, yet granted him triumphal distinctions.

philo 399.phi.881 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

A. Philo

Philo, who dies after A.D. 40, is mainly important for the light he throws on certain modes of thought and phraseology found again in some of the Apostles. Eusebius (Hist. Eccl., II, iv) indeed preserves a legend that Philo had met St. Peter in Rome during his mission to the Emperor Caius; moreover, that in his work on the contemplative life he describes the life of the Christian Church in Alexandria founded by St. Mark, rather than that of the Essenes and Therapeutae. But it is hardly probable that Philo had heard enough of Christ and His followers to give an historical foundation to the foregoing legends.

ribosomes 399 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

The system doesn’t allow me to attach the slides. Instead, I have numbered the slides and then listed the relevant slides.





1. Structure of ribosomes


More than 50 different proteins and several ribonucleic molecules are combined to comprise ribosomes. Ribosomes are composed of 1/3 protein and 2/3 RNA. RNA forms the core of the ribosome and proteins are found on the ribosomal surface. In eukaryotes, ribosomal subunits are constructed in the nucleus and are then exported to the cytoplasm where, when joined together, they catalyze the construction of and construct protein.

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes are similar. In each case, they have (i) a small subunit and (ii) a large subunit. The two subunits are linked together on an mRNA molecule – typically near its 5’ end – when it is appropriate to initiate the synthesis of proteins. The small subunit is where the matching of the tRNAs and the codons of the mRNA takes place. The large subunit is where the polypeptide chain is constructed by bonding amino acids together. To translate the mRNA, the ribosome pulls the mRNA through its core.

Dublin 449.dub.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Ireland is known as a land of legends, poetry, beauty and resolute spirit. Ireland is also known to many as the home of Sr. Margaret MacCurtain, a remarkable woman with a most determined spirit. To many in her homeland and throughout the world, she is known as a champion of justice for all, especially for women and children.

Sr. MacCurtain recently retired as a Lecturer from the Irish History Department of University College Dublin, 1964-94. During those years she was also Professor at the School of Irish Studies, Dublin, 1972-89. A member of the Academic Council of the Irish School of Ecumenics, for many years she served on the Catholic Communications Council set up by the Catholic hierarchy after Vatican Two. She was a board member of the National Rehabilitation Institute and as the founder principal helped establish the Senior College Ballyfermont for public education in the city of Dublin. A Dominican Sister, she was the prioress of Sion Hill convent and currently chairs the Board of Governors of St. Catherine's Home Economics College in Sion Hill. She held the Burns Chair of Irish Studies in Boston College, 1992-93, and more recently was the Baldwin Scholar in the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Baltimore). Her research into the history of Irish women won her the award of the Eire Society of Boston Gold Medal in 1993. Sr. MacCurtain is an internationally recognized and honored scholar, educator, writer, innovator, and feminist activist; put it all together and she is the complete Humanist.

outstanding 332.out.0044 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

As a military aviator Lt. Blow has logged more than 3,000 hours in six different aircraft. Lt. Blow arrived at Activities San Diego in August, 1994, following a four year assignment at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida.

She attended Army Warrant Officer Rotary Wing Aviation Course "WORWAC" or better known as flight school and was winged in February 1985. She served as Chief Warrant Officer Two and Aircraft Commander flying the U.S. Army's HH-60 "Blackhawk" Helicopter between 1985-1989. She was stationed in the Republic of Korea at Camp Humphreys 201st Combat Assault Company and Schofield Barracks, Hawaii 25th Infantry Division.

From February of 1989 to June 1990 she flew in the Army Reserves. By October 1990 she was able to secure an aviation position in the U.S. Coast Guard. Due to her extensive military aviation background she received a direct commission in the Coast Guard during a four week course in Yorktown, Virginia.

Since then she has been an Aircraft Commander in three Coast Guard helicopters: the HH-3F Pelican Helicopter, the HH-65A "Dolphin" and currently the HH-60J "Jayhawk".

Lt. Blow has attended many military schools which significantly prepared her for to be an outstanding Flight Safety Officer.

She has received many military medals and awards including: Humanitarian Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Commandant's Letter of Commendation with "O" device, Coast Guard Unit Commendation with "O" device, Coast Guard Bicentennial Unit Commendation, National Defense Ribbon, and Army Overseas Ribbon.

Women's International Center takes great pride in presenting the 1998 Living Legacy Patriot Award to a native daughter and an exceptional member of the United States Coast Guard.

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hand 664.han.003 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

On the one hand, the southern command and the two fronts... for the two fronts, the main goal was to mobilize quickly and to run forward as fast as possible, to cross the 250 kilometers to the borders. On the other hand, a war was going on on the border, and it was very hard fighting, full of heroic actions: small strongholds that were holding out against great forces surrounding them, small groups of a few tanks acting, and it was a desperate and heroic war on the Canal front and also on the Syrian front, and most of the forces were running to the border.

named 332.nam.02 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Ricky Davis had emerged from prison as a cocky, self-assured man—a strange attitude for someone who had accomplished so little.

And like a confident man will, he proved capable of asking women for exactly what he wanted — even if what he wanted was violent sex.

By early last spring, Davis and Riley were beginning to forge relationships among the denizens of the grimy underside of metropolitan Kansas City.

A number of women who dabbled in KC's meth and prostitution world later reported that a woman claiming to be Davis' cousin was hustling phone numbers on his behalf. (The cousin may have been Dena Riley.)

In April 2006, a woman named Lorie Dunfield got a phone call from Davis after giving her number to the cousin.

She went to Davis' Truman Road apartment, and he promptly popped in a video recording that showed him having sex with a woman.

Davis then revealed that "he wanted me to ... participate in being a serial killer with him," Dunfield told MSNBC's Rita Cosby. "He wanted me to help him kill women and get rid of the bodies."

Davis excitedly explained that they would suffocate the victims during three-way sex, which they would videotape for future viewing pleasure. Dunfield said she opted "to get the heck out of there."

But Dena Riley didn't.

notified 339.not.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Tel Birah (Bir el-cArabi) near Kibbutz Yasur (August 1959).� A letter from 26.8.59 (IAA Archives, administrative file Tel Birah) by Adam Druks describes how military units damaged a grave during training, and officers robbed vessels from the grave and refused to hand them back to Y. Ben-Yosef, IDAM�s �Antiquities Trustee� in this area (�Antiquities Trustees� were a voluntary body of the IDAM, raised to help the chronic shortage of personnel by reporting damage to sites, new discoveries, etc.).� The excavation was stopped, but the grave remained open; in the next morning a group of children from Kibbutz Yasur, who went �to see the soldiers�, found a car and Moshe Dayan, digging and taking vessels out of the grave. Ben Yosef was again called to the place, and, upon arrival, �demanded from General Dayan to leave the vessels in peace or at least hand them to his custody, as an antiquities-trustee of this place. To this, he [Dayan] responded- that if Yas�ur is ready to exhibit these vessels, he, General Dayan, is ready to loan them these vessels.�� The letter continues: �It appears that this morning Dayan visited the IDAM and described to Mrs. Miriam Tadmor a vessel, which, he said, was handed to him by an anonymous soldier from an anonymous place in the Galilee. He refused to give the name of the soldier or the site, claiming that revealing this source of information will lead to stopping it�.� Druks concludes: �we ought to infer from these reports.. that Dayan�s words and Rot�s words [about the grave at Tel Birah] describe the same grave�.�

On 2.9.1959 Moshe Prausnitz visited the IDF chief of staff�s office, and filed a complaint on 6.9.1959.� The complaint clarifies that the robbery started during army training around 10th August 59. It also specifies that Dayan robbed this site on 23.8.59. A letter by Prausnitz from 30.9.1959 estimates that �the excellent vessel held by Dayan now� was probably found in the first days, and this led to more robbing, stopped only on 24.8.� �Eight vessels are known [to be held] by Mr. M. Dayan. He visited the site on 23.8.1959 and found two small vessels (water juglets). 8 broken vessels were returned by two high army officers�.� The IDF, directed by chief of staff Gen. Haim Laskov, started a military investigation and promised to return the vessels, estimated by Prausnitz to be in the number of dozens.� The two high rank officers who were involved in the investigation were appointed to new positions, so Prausnitz was notified, and no further results were reached. �The military investigation�, wrote Prausnitz on 30.9.1959 �does not relate to Mr. Moshe Dayan, who is a citizen�...

Seventeen years later, Dayan himself casually revealed who was the soldier and robber who gave him the vessel and helped him to rob this grave. It was General Yekutiel Adam (�Kuti�).� Dayan (1976:258) described a meeting with Kuti, �who shared my interest in archaeology�, before the 1967 war broke: �Kuti poured his heart to me at his being unable [because of the war alert] to use the bulldozers at his disposal for archaeological digs. If only, he said, he could find a tomb in this region like the one he had discovered in Yissor! [sic]. Some time before, he had found several beautiful jugs in that tomb and had offered one to me�...������

halt 332.hl.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

3. Later in the night a red sun-like light was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and then disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star-like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off the horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through an 8-12 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The objects to the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two or three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities in paragraphs 2 and 3.

(Signed)
Charles I. Halt, Lt Col, USAF
Deputy Base Commander

explaining 33.exp.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

My first reaction, I’m ashamed to say, was blind panic. That night, and every night for weeks after, I had every light in the apartment on at all times. I didn’t sleep, didn’t eat, and rarely had a rational thought. I had no one I could confide in and I felt extremely alone and terrified. For two weeks, I took vacation and sick time from work as I tried to pull myself back together. I remember sitting up in bed for several nights, all night long, clutching a kitchen knife for protection. It finally occurred to me that if I were to fall asleep, I could seriously injure myself. I think that’s when I started to calm down a bit and begin the long journey of handling this part of my life.

Those two weeks after reading Communion are easily some of the worst times I have endured. To this day, I’m not sure how I got back on my feet and went on with the business of living, but I did. I went back to work, back to a social life, and back to family. I never mentioned it to anyone, although it dominated my thoughts and feelings. I bought other books on the subject, but I was unable to read them. I would get one or two pages in and feel myself beginning to fall apart again. I stacked them up to collect dust and moved on. I had a computer at the time, so I began searching there for information. For some reason, it was easier to digest from that source and I began learning. Each confirmation I found was difficult to accept; I so wanted to be wrong about this.
I came up with wild theories to explain what happened to me. At different times, I decided it was all in my imagination, that it was some kind of ghostly phenomenon, and that I had Spirit Guides. I searched through new age belief systems and more traditional religions. I spoke with people on the internet and tried to make myself believe it wasn’t happening at all. At one point, I decided I had a psychiatric disorder, but then had trouble explaining how it wasn’t affecting other areas of my life. If I was hallucinating, it stood to reason that I would be hallucinating at work and with others around as well. It finally occurred to me that the physical symptoms I was having could not be explained away. What kind of hallucination leaves bruises and puts your clothes on inside out? It may sound odd, but I was very upset when I finally came to this realization. If it had been merely something in my own mind, there was still hope of putting an end to it. Medication, therapy; there was hope of a cure. Not so with abductions. It goes on without your consent for your entire life and there is no control over it. However, the abduction phenomenon remains the only theory that ever encompassed all the symptoms I have experienced throughout my life. The day I accepted this, I felt very alone and afraid.

head hair 33.hea.992 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Dan Hagood, Toby Shook, and Mike Bosillo made up the prosecution's team, and among their star witnesses were the two patrol officers who had followed their instincts and linked together the prostitutes who'd complained about Albright. The prosecution had a theory that Albright had become enraged after two prostitutes (one of them Pratt) had ripped him off one night. A prostitute who had been with Albright and Susan Peterson, the second victim, testified about how he had picked them up together one night and beaten them severely. In fact, he had handcuffed the witness and beaten her with an electric cord for half an hour. Albright also had enormous gasoline bills, ostensibly from cruising.

On December 7, Special Agent Judd Ray testified about the linkage analysis and the fact that the killer would have been comfortable in, and familiar with, the Oak Cliff area. In many different sources, he is quoted as saying, "What was interesting to us was the method in which these victims, these body parts, were taken. In my professional opinion, it's doubtful that you would have more than one person that deranged living in this city."

Dr. Peacock, who had done the first autopsy, stated how difficult it was to cut the muscles and the optic nerve that connected the eyes to the skull. She described how precise the killer's method had been, adding that he would have to have some skill.

But the prosecution suffered several blows. The yellow raincoat worn by Williams when she'd disappeared had been inadvertently thrown away (though the jury had seen it), Upshaw had changed his story, Albright's neighbors supported the fact that he did not have a car during the time of the murder, and Veronica had decided to testify for the defense. Against her original story, she now said that Albright had never done anything to her, and she could not be shaken from that position. She said that the police had bullied her into saying that her attacker was Albright.

But the heart of the proceedings, and the piece that became highly controversial, rested on testimony by forensic experts. Charlie Linch discussed his analysis of the hair specimens, as detailed in Matthews and Wicker. Among his finds were:

Eight hairs that matched Shirley Williams' hair came from Albright's vacuum cleaner.

Six of Williams' hairs came from the blue blanket found in the Oak Cliff field with the yellow raincoat.

Three pubic hairs from that blanket matched Albright's, and a head hair on the raincoat matched his; his public hair also matched one strand of pubic hair lifted from Williams' neck.

Albright's head hair was found near a wound on Williams' face, another on her back and two on her left hand.

Three head hairs from Susan Peterson were on a blanket in Albright's truck, as were four hairs likely from Pratt.

A squirrel hair was found in the vacuum and on the blanket picked up in the field.

In addition, SpeeDee's hair did not match any of the samples.

But Linch had matched Albright to the fourth murdered prostitute, and for that case, Albright had an alibi. That put a dent in the testimony about how scientific hair analysis was. And the defense was ready for that.

backyard 2.bac.002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

At this point, detectives had arrived to examine the sparsely furnished crime scene — one of the more interesting ones they had witnessed in some time. Of particular scrutiny was the bedroom, which appeared to have been rigged up for a special purpose.

Plastic sheeting covered the carpet to protect it from dripping blood. The bedding on the one single bed was all tangled and disarrayed. Most sinister was the large thick plywood board with several sets of handcuffs, ropes and cords attached to it. On the floor was a bayonet-like knife, a huge dildo, binding tape, glass tubes and petroleum jelly.

In a shed in the backyard was a plywood box with air holes cut into it and some strands of human hair inside.

Neighbors said that the house had belonged to Dean Corll's father Arnold, also an electrician, who had let his son take over the house when he had moved away. Son Dean had taken care of the house and had done nothing to arouse the suspicions of his neighbors in the quiet middle-class neighborhood.

At police headquarters, detectives got quite an earful from the two teenage boys. Earlier Tim Kerley said that Henley told him, "If you weren't a friend of mine, I could have gotten fifteen hundred dollars for you."

Henley told police that Corll was a homosexual and pedophile that paid him to procure victims, which Corll later murdered and buried in a boat shed.

diagnosis 7.dia.14 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

"The smell of decaying fish permeated the house and was extremely difficult to eradicate," the charging document read. Yet, the combination of a gun possession charge and vandalism set off no alarm bells about the man the local cops had once—albeit briefly—suspected of killing a six-year old girl.

There were times that Hadden Clark attempted to get help. He would often show up at a local veterans' hospital but after staying a few days and getting a few doses of Haldol, the anti-psychotic drug, he would bolt from the ward and return to his woods.

A doctor's diagnosis was a warning: "his mental state is psychosis with questionable etiology. He states that birds and squirrels talk to him and keep him company . . . he is tearful at times with intermittent outbursts of anger and agitation . . . he is a potential danger to himself through poor judgment and self-defeating behavior."

Hadden's own words as recorded by the hospital's doctors were chilling. "I think I have a split personality," he said. "I don't like to hurt people but I do things I am not aware of . . ."

Increasingly Unstable

In February of 1989, local police again arrested Hadden Clark. This time there was a 17-count criminal indictment. Fifteen of the counts were for theft. The acts were unusual. Hadden Clark had dressed in women's clothing and visited a number of area churches. While women inside the churches attended choir practice, he visited the cloakroom and stole both their purses and their coats.

application 33.app.001002 Louis J. Sheehan, esquire

First, that the trial be halted. Ms. Davies claimed that Dr. Shipman could not receive a fair trial because of the prior "inaccurate, misleading" coverage of the case. For the better part of two days, she drew attention to the range of newspaper articles reportage of nearly 150 patients' cases and financial searches, plus the extensive coverage of the exhumations.

The prosecutor Mr. Henriques countered with a statement that the reports had actually been beneficial — they had helped alert other families to possible irregularities in the deaths of their loved ones.

In the Second Application, Ms. Davies wanted the court to hold three separate trials.

She claimed the case of Kathleen Grundy should be separate — it alone had any alleged motive, greed.

The second trial, she said, should involve only patients who had been buried, because this was the only group where physical evidence of cause of death — morphine poisoning — applied.

The third trial, she believed, should cover those cremated, as no physical evidence of death existed.

Again, the prosecutor countered with an argument that, because the cases were inter-related, trying them all together was required to present a more comprehensive picture.

Ms. Davies then presented the prosecution's third application — one that stunned the court. She wanted evidence referred to in 'volume eight' disallowed.

Essentially, volume eight detailed how Shipman had accumulated morphine from 28 patients — many now deceased. It showed the doctor continued prescribing for some after they had died, and kept the drugs for his own purposes. Similarly, he had prescribed opiates for many still living — patients who had never required strong painkillers, much less morphine.

After considering the defense's three applications, Mr. Justice Forbes carefully explained why he was denying each one.

The trial would proceed; it would include the sixteen charges in the indictment, and evidence in volume eight would be allowed.

fanatic 44.fan.551 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

Another source is Lee's 1856 letter to his wife,[22] which can be interpreted in multiple ways:
“ ... In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it however a greater evil to the white man than to the black race, & while my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more strong for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, socially & physically. The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race, & I hope will prepare & lead them to better things. How long their subjugation may be necessary is known & ordered by a wise Merciful Providence. ”

Freeman's analysis[22] puts Lee's attitude toward slavery and abolition in historical context:
“ This [letter] was the prevailing view among most religious people of Lee's class in the border states. They believed that slavery existed because God willed it and they thought it would end when God so ruled. The time and the means were not theirs to decide, conscious though they were of the ill-effects of Negro slavery on both races. Lee shared these convictions of his neighbors without having come in contact with the worst evils of African bondage. He spent no considerable time in any state south of Virginia from the day he left Fort Pulaski in 1831 until he went to Texas in 1856. All his reflective years had been passed in the North or in the border states. He had never been among the blacks on a cotton or rice plantation. At Arlington the servants had been notoriously indolent, their master's master. Lee, in short, was only acquainted with slavery at its best and he judged it accordingly. At the same time, he was under no illusion regarding the aims of the Abolitionist or the effect of their agitation. ”
Harpers Ferry and Texas, 1859-61

Both Harpers Ferry and the secession of Texas were monumental events leading up to the Civil War. Robert E. Lee was at both events. Lee initially remained loyal to the Union after Texas succeeded.
Harpers Ferry

When John Brown led a band of 21 men (including five African Americans) and seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in October 1859, Lee was given command of detachments of Maryland and Virginia militia, soldiers, and United States Marines, to suppress the uprising and arrest its leaders.[23] By the time Lee arrived later that night, the militia on the site had surrounded Brown and his hostages. When on October 18 Brown refused the demand for surrender, Lee attacked and after three minutes of fighting, Brown and his followers were captured.

Robert E. Lee made a summary report of the events that took place at Harpers Ferry to Colonel Samuel Cooper, the U. S. Army Adjutant General. According to Lee's notes Lee believed John Brown was insane,"...the plan [raiding the Harpers Ferry Arsenal] was the attempt of a fanatic or mad­man". Lee also believed that the African Americans used in the raid were forced to by John Brown himself. "The blacks, whom he [John Brown] forced from their homes in this neighborhood, as far as I could learn, gave him no voluntary assistance." Lee attributed John Brown's "temporary success" by creating panic and confusion and by "magnifying" the number of participants involved in the raid.
Texas

When Texas seceded from the Union in February 1861, General David E. Twiggs surrendered all the American forces (about 4,000 men, including Lee, and commander of the Department of Texas) to the Texans. Twiggs immediately resigned from the U. S. Army and was made a Confederate general. Lee went back to Washington, and was appointed Colonel of the First Regiment of Cavalry in March 1861. Lee's Colonelcy was signed by the new President, Abraham Lincoln. Three weeks after his promotion, Colonel Lee was offered a senior command (with the rank of Major General) in the expanding Army to fight the Southern States that had left the Union.